vNetwork Distributed Switching—new with vSphere
Guidelines for Implementing VMware vSphere 4 with the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
This paper describes additional vSphere 4 product and feature considerations when planning a Cisco Nexus 1000V deployment.
VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch: Migration and Configuration
This guide is intended to help users understand the various scenarios and considerations for migration to the vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS). It also includes a step-by-step guide on migration from a Standard Switch environment to a vDS environment.
DMZ Virtualization Using VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
This paper tackles the subject of DMZ security and virtualization. It covers a number of DMZ security requirements and scenarios, presenting how vSphere users can implement the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch in a DMZ.
What’s New in VMware vSphere 4: Virtual Networking
This document describes the major vNetwork technology enhancements introduced with vSphere.
Virtual Networking Features of the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch and Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
This document lists and explains the virtual networking features and capabilities of the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches to be introduced by VMware and Cisco in 2009.
VMware vSphere 4: Deployment Methods for the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
Understand the options and methods available to deploy a vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) over a number of hosts. Understand whether Host Profiles or the vDS gui is most appropriate for deploying vDS your environment.
More information on the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
Discover the rich features of the vNetwork Distributed Switch that can simplify virtual machine networking.
More information on the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Virtual Switch
Follow this link to learn more about how the Cisco Nexus 1000V uses the third party virtual switch framework within vSphere to provide a rich set of features and capabilities consistent with physical Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus switches.
VMware and Cisco Resources
Learn how VMware and Cisco are collaborating and advancing virtualization and virtual networking. This link takes you to the VMware and Cisco joint resources page.
Virtual Networking Technology Concepts, Design & Deployment
IPv6 Support in VMware Infrastructure
This paper describes IPv6 support in ESX 3.5 and VMware Infrastructure 3 and outlines VMware's approach to IPv6 conformance in VMware Infrastructure 3 and future releases.
VMware Infrastructure 3 Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting
This presentation details a number of problem scenarios and troubleshooting methods available in VMware Infrastructure 3 and ESX 3.5.
VMware Virtual Networking Concepts
Understand the basic components and design considerations of virtual networking in ESX.
VMware ESX Server 3: 802.1Q VLAN Solutions
An overview of VLAN concepts, configuration options and guidelines for use with ESX.
Using IP Multicast with VMware ESX 3.5
Understand the operation of IP Multicast in ESX 3.5 and the considerations and best practices for deployment.
Implementing Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB) in a Virtualized Environment
Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a feature of recent Microsoft Windows Server operating systems used to improve the scalability and availability of Internet server applications. This paper provides instructions for supporting NLB in unicast or multicast mode on VMware ESX.
VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
VMware has collaborated with Cisco to produce a guide for deploying VMware Infrastucture 3 with Cisco switches. This guide covers the physical and virtual network and storage network deployment considerations for ESX Server with suggested topologies and designs.
Enabling NetFlow on Virtual Switches
This technical notes outlines how VMware ESX provides experimental support for NetFlow V5 on virtual switches to gain visibility into virtual machine network traffic.
DMZ Virtualization with VMware Infrastructure
Detailed descriptions of three different DMZ configurations with best practice guidelines for secure deployment.
VMware HA: Concepts and Best Practices
High availability concepts, options, and best practices with ESX.
Network Performance
10Gbps Networking Performance on ESX 3.5 Update 1
Results from VMware network throughput experiments with 10GigE NICs on ESX hosts.
Networking Performance in VMware ESX Server 3.5
Native versus ESX Gigabit Ethernet network benchmarking results using various virtual nics and guest operating systems.
Multi-NIC Networking Performance in ESX 3.0.1 and XenEnterprise 3.2.0
In this paper, we characterize the virtualization overheads of virtual machines by measuring the performance under heavy networking in a single-processor virtual machine.
Networking Performance in Multiple VMs
Networking performance comparison of ESX 3.0.1 and XenEnterprise 3.2.0 under heavy networking load.
IP Storage
iSCSI Design Considerations and Deployment Guide
Understand the design considerations and deployment options for deploying VMware Infrastructure 3 using iSCSI storage. Get an overview of iSCSI terminology plus deployment considerations and guidelines for using software and hardware iSCSI initiators on ESX.
VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANS: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
Co-authored VMware, Dell & Equalogic paper on using and deploying iSCSI with ESX.
VMware ESX Server Ethernet-based Storage Configuration
Technical consideration in configuring iSCSI storage with VMs on ESX.
Documentation
VMware vSphere 4 documentation
Full list of documentation for vSphere 4. Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the ESX Configuration Guide has extensive information on configuring vNetwork Standard Switches and vNetwork Distributed Switches, plus Best Practices and Troubleshooting virtual networking in ESX 4.
VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation
Full list of documentation for VMware Infrastructure 3 product line organized by editions and server type. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the ESX Server 3 Configuration Guide have extensive information on configuring and troubleshooting Networking in ESX 3.x.
Take the Next Step
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